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Orlando Homes & Garden News

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said a developer must remove the asbestos-contaminated exterior stucco from the 30-story tower at 1515 S. Flagler Drive in West Palm Beach before it demolishes the building. Trinity Development Group, which wants to build a $150 million luxury tower called the Modern in the tower’s place, contested earlier recommendations regarding the asbestos, saying there was not enough asbestos to prevent a simple demolition.

1. Office tenants renewing leases negotiate better rents, more space [GlobeSt]
2. William Hutton III, past president of Palm Beach Board of Realtors, dies [Palm Beach Daily News]
3. New U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices in South Florida face foreclosure [SFBJ]
4. Former Broward school building chief put on probation [Broward-Palm Beach New Times]
5. Foreclosure lawsuit filed against Santa Barbara Place in Pompano Beach [SFBJ]
6. Lums restaurant in Davie closes 53 years after chain begins [Sun-Sentinel]
7. Marlins stadium financing deal could make Wachovia Miami-Dade's primary bank [Miami Today]
8. Oakland Park opens new emergency operations center [Sun-Sentinel]
9. BankUnited could be seeking new headquarters outside of Coral Gables [Miami Today]
10. Both Allstate Floridian insurance companies get new name [Sun-Sentinel]
11. Rising unemployment rates hurting Obama's housing recovery [WSJ]
12. U.S. foreclosures to peak in late 2010, Barclays Capital says [Bloomberg]
13. Housing market statistics nationwide hint at recovery [Reuters]
14. Shares of iStar Financial fall [Forbes]
15. Has housing market hit bottom? [ABC News]
16. REIT improvements may be sign of commercial market turnaround [CoStar]
17. Columnist says open houses still work [WSJ] 
18. REIT index rose 28 percent in April-June period [WSJ]
19. Americans don't want larger homes, study shows [WSJ]

A recent study predicts that up to 20 percent of all loans to U.S. hotels will default by the end of 2010. The recession has caused such severe cutbacks in travel and spending that hotels won't be able to service their debts, University of California economist Kenneth Rosen said. Hotel foreclosures almost doubled in the second quarter of the year from the first three months of 2009. Defaults and foreclosures hit $17.3 billion in the second quarter, up from $9 billion at the end of the first quarter, according to Real Capital Analytics.

Plunging property values in Miramar prompted city commissioners to raise property tax and fire fee rates. Residents now will pay to $6.90 per $1,000 of taxable assessed value from $5.4797 per $1,000 worth of property, a 26 percent hike. Commissioners voted on the increase because assessed values have fallen so far that previous rates would have left a huge budget gap. Miramar has cut its budget 13 percent, to $65 million.

Jorge Perez, chairman and CEO of the Related Group, will join the Miami Dolphins as a vice chairman at the invitation of team owner Stephen Ross, his partner in the development firm. Perez may also take a minority ownership stake. Other celebrity vice chairs include Jimmy Buffett and Emilio and Gloria Estefan. The Estefans also became minority owners, with a less than 1 percent stake in the team.

What tips do you have for Ruth Madoff in her search for a new home?
Leave New York City and look in Miami. They're so desperate down there that to sell or rent an apartment that even a Madoff would be welcome.

From the New York Web site:  In Miami, there were 2,556 new foreclosures in the second quarter of this year, according to a quarterly report released today by the real estate Web site PropertyShark.com. Miami fared poorly compared to New York City, said PropertyShark CEO Bill Staniford, because Miami saw more overbuilding than New York.

Two years after construction began in a boom environment, the W Hotels' new $500 million South Beach outlet opened to a much worse travel environment. The hotel has sold out its July weekends with aggressive promotional pricing and found buyers for 96 condo hotel rooms, leaving 312 available for guests. The condo hotel project has a total of 408 units. May room occupancy rates plunged 11.5 percent from last year, according to the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau. Unemployment provided a huge labor pool, with 12,000 applicants for 400 jobs at the hotel.

Florida wants to advance homebuyers the $8,000 federal tax credit now available to qualified buyers. But the Florida Homebuyer Opportunity Program lacks available funds and could derail a $161 million statewide grant program to help low-income home buyers and promote construction of affordable housing. Allocations to individual towns and cities will limit the number of loans that can take the advance payments, critics said. To find a local office for the Homebuyer Opportunity Program, go to www.floridahousing.org, select "Housing Partners," then "Local Governments (SHIP)," then "Find Local SHIP Offices."

The taxable value of property in Miami-Dade and Broward counties has dropped from the past year, according to the appraisers' offices. Miami-Dade saw a 13 percent drop, about $32 billion in taxable value. Broward values dropped about 10 percent, a $19 billion slide. Tax notices will be issued August 24.

Related's Jorge Perez and CityPlace South Tower

Developer the Related Group will turn over the 420-unit CityPlace South Tower in West Palm Beach to an investor group headed by lender Scotia Capital. Scotia, a unit of Bank of Nova Scotia, filed a foreclosure suit Wednesday, and Related worked out an agreement to give the group control over all unsold units, which is being termed a "friendly foreclosure." Only 39 units closed in 2008 after buyers walked away from contracts. Related CEO and Chairman Jorge Perez said all construction debts had been paid. [Miami Herald] and [SFBJ]

Foreclosures, dried-up financing and simple bad timing means countless South Florida construction projects now sit unfinished and all but abandoned. In the subtropical climate, the wood develops mold and degrades and the metal rusts. Mike Enos figures he can wrap up this problem, no matter the size of the mess. Fast Wrap, a franchise operation based in Reno, Nev., describes its work as asset protection. Think shrink-wrapping on a massive scale. Now trying to get a foothold in South Florida, Fast Wrap claims to physically protect everything from furniture to cars to boats -- and even houses and industrial buildings. It has 11 franchises, and recently opened one in Dania Beach, conveniently close to a slew of foreclosed homes in the tri-county area.

Applications for mortgages and refinancings fell in the week ending June 26, compared to the previous week, according to data released today by the Mortgage Bankers Association. Mortgage loan applications stood at 444.8 on the association's scale, an 18.9 percent decrease on a seasonally-adjusted scale from the previous week and a 7.4 percent decrease year-over-year. The association's index of refinancings fell 30 percent from the previous week, to its lowest level since November. The average interest rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to 5.34 percent from 5.44 percent. TRD

As the Obama administration looks to strengthen its anti-foreclosure programs, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will refinance mortgages with loan-to-value ratios of as much as 125 percent, jumping 20 percent from its former ratio of 105 percent. So far, 80,000 underwater loans have been refinanced through the Home Affordable program, but Paul Miller, an agent at FBR Capital Markets, said the plan will not work once affordability decreases, because the plan does not focus enough on principal writedowns. James Lockhart, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, agreed. He said the Home Affordable program has seen a slowdown in activity since mortgage rates have gone up.

1. Rules not yet finalized for state homebuyer tax credit program [Sun-Sentinel]
2. Construction was set to begin on Marlins stadium today [Miami Herald]
3. Judge sets deadline for Sunrise homeowner [Sun-Sentinel]
4. South Florida sites in foreclosure [SFBJ] and [SFBJ]
5. Freddie Mac gets $6.1 billion from Treasury Department [SFBJ]
6. Pace of prime mortgage delinquences actually slowing [Business Insider]
7. McMansions over $1 million will be next market segment to crash [Yahoo]